Early Tuesday morning, Coinbase’s Base network experienced a rare outage, halting block production for about 30 minutes. The root cause, classified on Base’s status page as an “unsafe head delay,” was quickly identified and resolved by the Base team.

The stall began around about 2:15 a.m. ET, as BaseScan and OKLink detected the final block stuck at height 33,792,704. With no new blocks for over 19 minutes, developers and users alike raised concerns across social channels. But the tone wasn’t all negative. 

As Save and Suilend protocol founder Rooter quipped: “People only make a fuss about downtime for chains with actual users. Bullish downtime.”

They may have a…

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